Robot Readings

Here are reviews and notes on papers. For starters they are all about distributed insect inspired robot locomotion.

Distributed/Centralized Robot Locomotion

• A Comparison of Three Insect Inspired Locomotion Controllers
• Lampreys
• The Ambler
• Biologically Inspired Approaches to Robotics (Beer, Quinn, Chiel and Ritzmann)
• A Distributed Neural Network Architecture for Hexapod Robot Locomotion Beer, Chiel, Quinn, Espenschied, Larsson

Keywords

"Neuroethology ("neuro" Greek; related to nerve cells, "ethos" Greek; habit or custom) is an evolutionary and comparative approach to the study of animal behavior and its underlying biological causation by the nervous system. This interdisciplinary branch of neuroscience endeavors to understand how the central nervous system translates biologically relevant stimuli into behavioral activity, thus attempting to elucidate the structure and function of the neurophysiological "black box" that controls the natural behavior of animals, often referred to as "instinctive behavior" or "innate behavior"." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroethology